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I use FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my workstation back at home. I absolutely love it because of the little maintenance that it requires. I use it for programming, watching videos, listening to music, surfing the internet, schoolwork, and SSH.

I always had bad luck with Parallels.

What is a canned desktop setup? I'm in favor of FreeBSD adding additional common sets to make desktop setup faster (I did not say easier for a reason).

I migrated to Xfce from Gnome on Gentoo. Then, I migrated from Gentoo to FreeBSD and haven't looked back! Here's my screenshot, now it's your turn! http://omploader.org/vcDZ3/2008-08-15-170653_1280x1024_scrot.png

I actually like RHEL/Fedora. Those two (not any other offshoots or re-brands) and Debian are the only Linux systems that seem close to Unix ideology that I'd use. The rest are just too foregone. Also, to me RHEL/Fedora are comparable to Solaris/OpenSolaris, not really to BSD as BSD vision is...

BSD-derived systems seem harder to use because they give you a barebones system upon install. That has never bothered me. I setup my system the exact same way each and every time. When I had to setup a second desktop, I just wrote a post-install script that automates system configuration and...

You seem to be the exception. If you look at Gentoo forums, you'll see how many people have left for other distributions, or better yet, a Unix.

Gentoo gives no one satisfaction. Gentoo installations barely lasted three or four months for me, and I was fairly conservative with upgrades and such. Gentoo is a broken system.

I doubt even Theo or Matt would put their dislike at that of the level of dislike for Linux. Linus hates all of Unix, particularly BSD of the specificity of the different BSD operating systems. He likes an all-inclusive system, but that doesn't seem to be working well.

If you setup your desktop the same way every time, then write a script. I have a post-install script that installs on my programs on FreeBSD and restores my configuration files. It runs beautifully.

What say you to Solaris's current direction? I've used Solaris on and off, and in recent years, have never had to touch a console. I don't believe that reliance on console is the defining element of Unix. I believe that a fully functional command line is a defining element of Unix, solely its...

On the subject of GNU, they introduced their own brand of proprietary software that hinders development and quality. That's why Linux is so far behind. The BSD license gives more absolute freedom.

Gentoo is everything that FreeBSD isn't. ArchLinux's ABS system is quite complicated to use. Ports is very automated and simple, which makes it a treat to use.

Yahoo uses FreeBSD for everything. If anything, they should do some advocacy.

Arch is similar to BSD, but it isn't polished enough. It's not mature enough, and nor does it have the quality.

You could have used VirtualBox. Why did you buy VMWare Fusion?

Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Debian are my favorites. They follow Unix principles relatively well, are quite stable, and have good quality. However, nothing beats BSD.

FreeBSD runs well in VMWare Fusion, which is what you should use because they have integration tools for FreeBSD, whereas Parallels and VirtualBox don't. VirtualBox has trouble even installing a BSD. If you mean installing FreeBSD on a Mac, then there is a wiki page on this. According to a...

I doubt you'll be able to run a recent version of VMWare Workstation via linuxulator. I believe VMWare Workstation actually has a kernel component, which would be problematic, as it'd be fore Linux only. There is an ancient version of VMWare Workstation in ports, but I wouldn't recommend that...